Tim Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:36:47 -0800 (PST), Saibal Thakur wrote:
> >
> >If you have a rendering engine that renders NTSC video etc assuming a
> >square pixel, how do you make it work for a non-square pixel format
> >like PAL while mantaining the same aspect ratio.
> 
> Can you be more specific?  As far as I know, NTSC and PAL are equally
> capable of square pixels.  A typical computer-generated NTSC display
> is 640x480, and a typical PAL display is 768x576 or 800x600.

  That said, usually when outputting video graphics you use ITU-R.BT-601
digital sampling, so for NTSC that's 720x486 (definitely not square
pixel) and for PAL it's 720x576 (again not square pixel).

-- 
Billy Biggs
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